The Great Bar in the Sky, 2020
The Great Bar in the Sky is a fictional, interactive story in digital format, which is set in an alternative version of Athens, where history took a different turn after the COVID pandemic of 2020.
Inspired by real life events, governmental decisions during - and after the pandemic, as well as the flux in our everyday life, and extrapolating to not-so-distant-extremes, tGBitS aims to provide users with an unfamiliar vision of Athens, in order to invite self-reflection on our own tangible condition.
By entering the digital world, the player/user -a real life local Athenian becomes a visitor/tourist in alter-Athens and is encouraged to piece together the history and modus operandi of this place, by the qualities of the public urban space and the oral stories of its inhabitants.
tGBitS was developed during the HACKATHENS 2020: WHAT COMES AFTER? by Christina Chrysanthopoulou and Olga Chatzifoti with the
curation of Angelos Varvarousis & Prodromos Tsiavos.
tGBitS was exhibited at the Ars Electronica Garden in September 2020 and at the Click Creatives online exhibition in June 2021.
https://noha-morte.itch.io/tgbits
*all scenes are hand-painted acrylics on photomontages of Athens.
Inspired by real life events, governmental decisions during - and after the pandemic, as well as the flux in our everyday life, and extrapolating to not-so-distant-extremes, tGBitS aims to provide users with an unfamiliar vision of Athens, in order to invite self-reflection on our own tangible condition.
By entering the digital world, the player/user -a real life local Athenian becomes a visitor/tourist in alter-Athens and is encouraged to piece together the history and modus operandi of this place, by the qualities of the public urban space and the oral stories of its inhabitants.
tGBitS was developed during the HACKATHENS 2020: WHAT COMES AFTER? by Christina Chrysanthopoulou and Olga Chatzifoti with the
curation of Angelos Varvarousis & Prodromos Tsiavos.
tGBitS was exhibited at the Ars Electronica Garden in September 2020 and at the Click Creatives online exhibition in June 2021.
https://noha-morte.itch.io/tgbits
*all scenes are hand-painted acrylics on photomontages of Athens.
